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Thursday, 15 August 2013

Please enjoy this
special edition of the 2dcast, the Irish comic scene discussion from
this years 2d Festival. Our republic of Ireland correspondent Ciaran
Marcantonio talks the Irish scene with a cavalcade of guests
including:

Thursday, 30 May 2013

With the first days workshops over we had an opportunity to
have a chat with podcaster, academic, comics creator and all round nice guy Dan
Berry about his work We also had a talk with perennial Irish scene favourite
Alan Nolan about today’s workshops, his forthcoming work and most importantly
SANCHO~! Tune in tomorrow for further festival fun.

Wednesday, 29 May 2013

IT ALL STARTS HERE!!!!!! Well actually it all starts
tomorrow, but nonetheless the 2dcast team are here to give you a short preamble
to this year’s 2d Festival with the first of FIVE podcast this week. Nothing in particular here just a bit of
festival info and ting. Its only ten minutes so give it a whirl.

Saturday, 18 May 2013

As the last minute
panic grows ever stronger we chat with newly announced 2d Festival guest Gar
Shanley who tells us about the brand new Courageous
Mayhem anthology. Wehave a spoiler
( and rant) filled review of the fantastic Star
Trek Into Darkness. We also talk To Nathan Donnell and Niall Kavanagh about
The (now fully funded) who’s Afraid of
the Big Bad Wolf. The audio for the three way conversation was a bit dodgy;
we apologise and won’t be trying that again.

Only 2 Weeks till the
2DFestival so please share this episode using your social medias.

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plugs 2dcast@gmail.com.

Monday, 13 May 2013

Ahhh, Masters of the Universe. Golden memories of summer
mornings spent watching the poorly animated treat from Filmation, followed by going outside to
kick a ball around for nineteen hours before bed time. Great days. Great Days.
Even as a child I realised (like most people have ) thatMOTU was a shite ,and althoughthe 2002 reboot was a lot better it didn’t
exactly have a lot of staying power did it. I thought we had seen the last of
the most powerful man in the universe.

A re-launch of the Masters of the Universe franchise seems
like an especially unlikely candidate for a DC book in 2013 given how “New 52”
centric the company has become over the last 18 months, and yet clearly the
Minis and one-shots must have sold enough to make it seem viable as He-Man and
the Masters of The Universe is now an on-going. It’s not so much the choice of
licensed property, more the fact that it’s a licenced property at all. I know
that DC had the
rights to MOTU back in the day and all that, but if you squint hard enough at it
you would swear this was an IDW title. Oh well.

Picking up where the six issue mini leaves off (I’m assuming
this as I didn’t read it) the people of Eternia are preparing to celebrate the
life and mourn the death of the Sorceress, when they fall under attack by the
forces of the Horde. The rest of the issue is just a big battle leading to the
shocking reveal. The Horde, by the way are being led by a weirdly sexy Hordak kind of female type thing
which left me in a strange place where I found myself finding Hordak kind of hot,
and asking myself serious questions about my sanity. Fortunately the final page
which reveals that it’s actually She Ra wearing a mask took care of that issue
but also raised a second set of different questions about my sanity.

The battle for Eternias' huge....tracts of land.

In tone this finds itself somewhere mid-way between a loving
homage to both the original Filmation
series and the 2002 re launch, and an Ultimate’s style reboot. It takes the
elements of the cartoons that are acceptable to a modern audience and ramps
them up. The elements that are unacceptable? Well they get kept too, but made
fun of. It’s not exactly reverential to the source material, but there’s
certainly enough here to keep the nostalgia crowd happy without out it being a
turn off to non-fans.

The writing isnothing
earth shattering, but Giffen is a favourite of mine and he manages to work in
enough of his trademark witty dialogue to keep things moving along at a
sharpish pace, and The Jim Lee influenced art by Pop Mahn (awesome name) is
super solid, so the whole thing is entirely decent enough that I would be
interested to see more. A decent first issue that will hopefully lead to better
things down the line.

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

As a preview to this year’s festival
we present a recording of one of last year’s panel discussions
looking at cultural differences and how they relate to comics
properties. Chair Chris Thompson hosts a line-up that includes Chris
Ryall (Chief Creative Officer and Editor-in-Chief of IDW
Publishing , Emma Vieceli (THE AVALON CHRONICLES) and Cam Kennedy
(living bloody legend). Due to the late night nature of this panel
this podcast is NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Meanwhile back at the ranch Ciaran
and Bobby have a spoilerific mini review of IRON MAN 3.

Festival now only 4 weeks away. If you
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Monday, 22 April 2013

In a break from the norm we devote the entire episode to a candid chat with long-time friend of the 2dCast and Transformers main man Nick Roche. This episode is mostly Bobby, Nick, and myself fawning over comics about a range of Japanese toys, so if you’re not into that possibly give this a miss. If you are into that we talk about every facet of the Transformers G1 mythos .We will return with a “normal” episode at the end of this week. Of course it never really ends though, does it? A great episode so check it out.
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